User Services/Sync/Relaunch

Firefox 29 Cycle Sync Relaunch Burndown

At the Mozilla 2014 Planning offsite on Dec 11th, Johnathan Nightingale, Andreas Gal, and Mark Mayo agreed to jointly accelerate Sync relaunch on Firefox Desktop and Android as their teams’ top priority, targeting the Firefox 29 release and thus a January 29th code freeze.

We must efficiently collaborate across teams to meet our deadline. This constantly updated, cross-team, master dependency burn list/wiki is our collaboration tool, consolidating the dependencies and our focus to resolve them to a single page.

21 Days to Go

Cloud Services Dependencies

Contacts: Lloyd Hilaiel, Chris Karlof, Tauni Oxborrow, Ryan Feeley, John Gruen, Edwin Wong, Rob Lord

• Complete by Fri, Dec 20
  • [PM] Populate UX, Eng, QA deliverables for the remaining four Fridays.
  • [QA] Define load requirements and SLA for Auth and Sync testing
  • [OPS] (edwong) Deploy staging Sync server cluster for load testing
  • [ENG] Demonstration build on elm

• Fri, Jan 3
• Fri, Jan 10
• Fri, Jan 17
• Fri, Jan, 24

Firefox Desktop Dependencies

Contacts: Chad Weiner, ...

• Complete by Fri, Dec 20
  • [PM] Populate UX, Eng, QA deliverables for the remaining four Fridays.
  • [ENG] Demonstration build on elm
• Fri, Jan 3
• Fri, Jan 10
• Fri, Jan 17
• Fri, Jan, 24

Firefox for Android Dependencies

Contacts: Karen Rudnitski, Mark Finkle, ...

• Complete by Fri, Dec 20
  • [PM] Populate UX, Eng, QA deliverables for the remaining four Fridays.
• Fri, Jan 3
• Fri, Jan 10
• Fri, Jan 17
• Fri, Jan, 24

Platform Dependencies

• Fri, Dec 20
  • [PM] Populate UX, Eng, QA deliverables for the remaining four Fridays.
• Fri, Jan 3
• Fri, Jan 10
• Fri, Jan 17
• Fri, Jan, 24

Q & A

Q. Does this include the FxA promotion to desktop and android users?
A. Not necessarily. The priority is readiness to launch the new Sync UX.

Q. What about old sync to new sync migration/mitigation (aka “mitigration”)?
A. Good question. Some thoughts on migration here: https://services.etherpad.mozilla.org/sync-migration

Q. Is the January 29th code freeze date a hard deadline?
A. Yes. We have an aggressive Firefox Account sign-up goal for 2014. If we miss the date, we lose substantial time to sign-up users. Also, we have a significant OEM to service. Finally, we’ve already waited a long time to ship.

Q. Does this include Metro on desktop?
A. No.